We’ll be loading up our little yellow Robin Reliant and heading out to Chorlton on Saturday 19th May. We have a stall at the Arts and Crafts Market which is part of the Chorlton Arts Festival. The Market is in St Clement’s Church, Edge Lane and will run from 10am until 4pm. From midday the [...]
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David Gaffney Sawn-off Tales book signing
April 19, 2007 – 11:41 am
Another plug for regular Transmission contributor David Gaffney. This Saturday 21st April, the author will be signing copies of his excellent collection of short stories, Sawn-off Tales, from 1.00pm at Waterstones in Bury, North Manchester.
Only a short stretch from Manchester city centre on the Metrolink (about 25 mins) at £3.50 off-peak return, so if you [...]
Report from the Basement
April 16, 2007 – 10:30 am
Well, the mini-market at the Basement Cafe was a little slow and being the first really hot day of spring it isn’t really hard to see why folk didn’t fancy disappearing into a cellar to look at magazines! It was also this weather that made it very difficult to lug a small, but extremely heavy [...]
Mini Magazine Market - this Saturday
April 13, 2007 – 9:43 am
This Saturday sees a rare public outing for the Transmission team as we will be attending a mini magazine market in Manchester.
Unwilling to stray too far from environments comfortable to us, we will be holding a stall in the underground Basement Café and Bookshop, 24 Lever Street.
The day will be one of the first outings [...]
The Booker for Short Stories?
April 2, 2007 – 2:19 pm
The future is looking bright for the much-ignored genre of short fiction. Not only has there been the National Short Story Prize, but now there is The Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story. The prize is open for collections by a single author, and has had entries from big publishers as well as from [...]